Kym Wehrle Manager, Contracts and Procurement

Kym Wehrle is responsible for maintaining an effective risk review process, providing policy, direction and oversight of all Contracts and Procurement matters for DMDII. Prior to her Contracts Management role, Kym was a Contracts Representative at Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, where she managed a contract portfolio totaling $936 million. Kym received her bachelor’s degree in Finance from Illinois State University and her MBA in Leadership and Change Management from DePaul University.

UI LABS solves large-scale challenges by bringing University + Industry together with startups and government to accelerate the deployment of emerging technologies through collaboration. UI LABS is developing a portfolio of applied research and commercialization Labs that lead to a return on investment for its partners, improve local, regional and national competitiveness, and transform entire industries. Across its current Labs, UI LABS has over 300 members from industry, academic and research institutions, states and cities, and community organizations.

In February 2014, UI LABS announced the formation of its first Lab, the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), through collaboration with the Department of Defense and a host of other partners, to transform American manufacturing through digitization of the supply chain. Learn more at www.dmdii.org.

UI LABS’ second Lab, City Digital, launched in 2015 to digitize the built environment to transform how citizens live, work, and play in cities today and tomorrow. Learn more at www.citydigital.org.